Northeast Taiwan Christian Association Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Outreach Camps and Tours Program OCT - NETCA hosts both regional and international camps and mission tours mostly in Taiwan and USA. These camps and tours include children teens young adults and seniors. In 2024 NETCA hosted a Galilee camp in Aodi and Dasi villages for grammar school children. NETCA also hosted a Shout Camp for teenagers in Long-Men Village for teenagers. All of these villages are in northeastern Taiwan. This year NETCA also hosted a mission tour to the USA that we call the Come Follow Me or CFM tour. Twenty-two older children and teenagers joined the mission tour to Boston Connecticut and New York while approximately 300 attended the aforementioned three summer camps. In the two Galilee camps the teaching focused on the miracles and parables of Jesus as laid out in the gospel of Mark chapters 1-9. They also engaged in singing songs playing games and doing crafts. These two camps were five days long for each camp and from 8:00 until 5pm. The Shout camp was hosted at a camp ground and the teens in attendance stayed in the camp for four days and three nights. They received teachings from the Bible sound praise and worship songs was served three meals per day engaged in surfing kayaking and other games. They slept in air-conditioned bunk houses and had use of public restrooms and showers and a large pavilion. Expenses included camp ground rental stage and sound equipment rental meals t-shirts prizes game supplies printed materials bank fees small stipends gifts and love offerings for guests speakers and some helpers kayak entry fees insurance teaching supplies postage non-edible consumables and other small disbursements. These two programs had expenses of $123,061.00 in 2024 and had revenue of $114,984.00 in 2024.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
• Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $90.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 0th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 59.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings